{"id":220936,"date":"2026-04-06T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:14:12","slug":"gibson-earns-american-honorable-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220936\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Earns American Honorable Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Florida\u00a0Atlantic softball\u00a0junior outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/ciara-gibson\/18507\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18507\" target=\"_blank\">Ciara Gibson<\/a> was selected for an American Conference award for the second straight week, this time earning an Honorable Mention selection, announced by the league office on Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter winning American Player of the Week, Gibson continued her tear at the plate, finishing the weekend series against North Texas with a .500 batting average, and tallying five hits, including two doubles, two home runs, and seven RBI.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGibson launched home runs in each of the final two games of the series, in addition to contributing two doubles in one inning in the series finale&#8217;s 17-7 win. The 17 runs, four of them driven in by Gibson, are the most in a single game by an American team during league play this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the past nine games, Gibson has tallied 14 hits in 25 at-bats, with 11 runs, six homers and 14 RBI. She has driven in at least one run in each of those nine appearances.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<br \/>\nThe Owls remain on the road for a three-game series in Tampa against South Florida on Friday through Sunday, April 10-12.<\/p>\n<p>OWLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTo stay up to date on all things FAU softball, follow the Owls on social media @FAUSoftball.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Florida\u00a0Atlantic softball\u00a0junior outfielder Ciara Gibson was selected for an American Conference award for the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-220936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}